Manufacturing Contentment: Technology, Addiction, and Design
Yan Li
This thesis presents the concept of online addiction as it relates to human repetitive behavior and then displays these common addictive and obsessive habits in humans' daily lives. Although the problems are widespread, I cannot control the effects of technology reliance and abuse. As a designer, I can only build awareness, look below the surface of internet addiction, and reveal the essentials from different angles, aspects, and modes.
The network influence
We use social media as a source of social reinforcement and validation; that is, the internet platform ingeniously provides an opportunity to share ideas, interact socially, build relationships. Yet, when "life online" has become the norm, dependency on our screens has exploded.
Key Word Exploration
Select design posters for the key terms including recursive, compulsive, replication, loops, and obsession. Use graphic elements to create and represent the repetition in human behavior patterns.
Glitches
I seek to express the condition of addiction, how people are seduced by repetitive messages, and tasks in general technology, and evoke it through my design.This photo-collage reflect a space that is fractured into incredible repetition, able to reveal a fascinating mismatching of dislocations that do create a destructive feeling.
Behavior pattern change-speculative design
“External physical control doesn't discipline you. As one has tied oneself up with twine, but one can also untie oneself in way that very desperate.” A strategy that can fight distractions and monitor your own feelings. It frees our minds from rumination and shifts our attention to more meaningful present.SEE the Repetition- SEA the Repetition
Repetition is the leitmotif of the show, as the word connects addiction, cognitive science, while also signaling a general shared quality among the works of obsession, recursion, loop action. This project uses creative coding and procedural art to represent repetition clicking and recursive looping, to create a screen-based experience.
With many of these habits and repetitive and addictive behaviors, the person isn’t even aware that they are doing the same thing again and again. And if people are not aware, they can’t control themselves and stop.
A mirror space with infinity reflection and repetition, to create some Immersive Kinetic art. That viewer able to interact with the design.
Another “world” in the mirror_first box
This installation creates a repetitive atmosphere, creating a visual motion picture in a mirrored box, allowing viewers to feel a visual conflict, a reconstructed world of changing light and shadow.